• STANFORD is making its NCAA-record 21st NCAA semifinal appearance, also making it the 33rd time a Pac-12 team has advanced that far. The third-seeded Cardinal are the defending NCAA Champion, having won its seventh crown last season under the direction of then-head coach John Dunning to tie for the most of any program.
• Nine Pac-12 teams received NCAA Tournament bids, the most of any conference in the country. Five of the teams earned top-16 seeds. It marks the 18th-consecutive years at least six tems have earned tournament berths. League teams went 8-1 in the first round this season, eventually advancing five teams to the round of 16. It marked the 18th time at least three Pac-12 teams reached the regional semifinal round.

The 10th-seeded and 14th-ranked USC women's volleyball team (25-10) suffered a five-set loss (25-23, 20-25, 18-25, 26-24, 15-11) to No. 2 seed Florida (29-1) and was eliminated in the regional final of the 2017 NCAA Division I Championship in Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on Saturday, Dec. 9.